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April 19, 2005 | Journal Article
The complexity of the United States health care delivery system presents specific difficulties for the provision of coordinated care. In 2003, the RWJF Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars program began a review of the state of coordinated care and implications for the future of generalist research, education and practice.
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This paper analyzes the effect of the Massachusetts health care reform on reported health care utilization and outcomes by both synthesizing the existing research and providing new evidence using the National Health Interview Survey.
September 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
Five RWJF-funded projects created an organizational structure to support the planning, development and implementation of collaborative approaches to improving health care access for underserved populations in Worcester County that had been underway since 1995.
April 1, 2008 | Journal Article
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in an urban primary care population is associated with a doubling of the number of hospitalizations and over twice the utilization of mental health resources. PTSD was not, however, associated with higher emergency department use or outpatient visits.
December 1, 2007 | Journal Article
This study examines the degree to which parents serve as information intermediaries in children referred from community practice to an academic referral center, as well as both parent and physician attitudes to their performing this role.
October 1, 2006 | Journal Article
When primary care physicians refer children to specialty physicians, it is important that the physicians communicate effectively with each other in order to provide patients with optimal care. Though pediatricians have identified lack of communicati ...
December 1, 2005 | Journal Article
Latino children run the highest risk of being uninsured in the United States; 21 percent lack health insurance. The State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) was founded in 1997 to provide coverage to uninsured children. Past studies have es ...
August 9, 2004 | Journal Article
The most effective treatment for menopausal symptoms is hormone therapy, which also decreases the risk of osteoporosis and colorectal cancer. However, hormone therapy increases the risk of coronary heart disease, stroke, pulmonary embolism and breas ...
July 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
From 1992 to 2000, Boston University School of Medicine expanded its primary care-oriented curricular and educational experiences.
July 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The University of Massachusetts Medical Center developed a strategy to increase to 50 percent both the proportion of entering students interested in primary care and the proportion of graduating students intending to practice as generalists.